2009-025 - Final Environmental Impact Report No. 2004-02

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Mr. Dan Bott CITY OF SANTA ANA • December 15, 2004 Page 2 Compared with the project description as analyzed in the traffic study report, the total residential unit count has decreased 43 units (from 834 units to 791 units). The restaurant use square footage has increased from 5,500 square feet to 8,600 square feet. The retail use square footage has decreased from 8,000 to 5,300 square feet. The additional single tenant office building includes a total of 10,000 square feet. The trip generation calculation for the refined site plan is based on the most recent trip generation resource report (Institute of Transportation Engineers Trip Generation Rates, ITE 7th Edition). This is consistent with the calculations presented in the previously completed traffic study report. Table 1 indicates the refined proposed site plan land use trip generation rates. Table 2 provides a trip generation summary for the overall site. As indicated on Table 2, the net project (the proposed project trips minus the • demolished existing land use trips) generates approximately 3,117 trip-ends per day with 411 vehicles per hour during the AM peak hour and 302 vehicles per hour dunng the PM peak hour. Table 2 also presents the refined site plan trip generation in comparison to the previously published traffic study report trip generation estimates. Compared to the previously published trip generation, the current site plan daily traffic volume decreases by 44 vehicle trips per day. The PM peak hour volume decreases by 2 vehicles per hour, while the AM peak hour volume has increased by 23 vehicle trips per hour. This represents a 6% increase compared to the AM peak hour trip generation included in the published traffic analysis. Most of this increase is attributable to the increase in restaurant square footage in the proposed site plan. If a use similar to the restaurant use being demolished (National Sports Grill) is located at this site, no AM peak hour trip generation would be expected and the net result would be no increase in AM peak hour trip generation. Alternately, if the National Sports Grill was replaced by a new restaurant (consistent with existing zoning) that included a breakfast clientele, the AM peak hour trip generation would actually decrease (given the reduction from 12,000 • square feet to 8,580 square feet). Resolution No. 2009-025 Page 71 of 95